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HB 887 Acute care psychiatric and residential beds, etc.

Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Acute care psychiatric and residential beds; children and adolescents; data collection and reporting. Requires the community policy and management teams, i.e., groups within the structure of the Comprehensive Services Act, to submit to the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services information on children under the age of 14 and adolescents between the ages of 14 to 17 for whom an admission to an acute care psychiatric or residential treatment facility (but not a group home) was sought but was not obtained. This information will be gathered from the family assessment and planning team or participating community agencies. The information to be submitted will include the child's date of birth, date of attempted admission, and the reason the admission could not be obtained. Further, identical information on failure to obtain admissions of children must be reported by the local mental health agencies to the Department. The Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services will also collect and compile data to ascertain (i) the total number of inpatient acute care psychiatric beds for children under the age of 14 and between the ages of 14 and 17, and (ii) the total number of residential treatment beds for children under the age of 14 and between the ages of 14 and 17, exclusive of group homes. The Department will report this data on a quarterly basis to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and the Virginia Commission on Youth. This bill is identical to SB 426.


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